It works on Google Colab (you can try on https://colab.research.google.com/):

import torchvision
import torchvision.transforms as transforms
trainset = torchvision.datasets.EMNIST(root="emnist",
                                   split="mnist",#letters #digits 
                                   train=True,
                                   download=True,
                                   transform=transforms.ToTensor())

Produces:

Downloading https://biometrics.nist.gov/cs_links/EMNIST/gzip.zip to emnist/EMNIST/raw/gzip.zip
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Extracting emnist/EMNIST/raw/gzip.zip to emnist/EMNIST/raw